from the Lenin Institute.

CHRONICLE OF THE V. I. LENIN INSTITUTE

shev, Yaroslavsky, Savin and a representative of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions; entrust the technical jury to be constituted by the Construction Commission.

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On the Collection of Lenin's Articles: "Marx, Engels, Marxism." — The Council took note of Comrade Kamenev's report on the contents of the collection.

GREETINGS TO THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS

from the Lenin Institute.

The Lenin Institute at the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) greets the Academy of Sciences on its 200th anniversary jubilee.

The Lenin Institute, founded for the study and popularization of the enormous literary heritage of the leader of the first victorious proletarian revolution, for the study of questions of world-historical significance, is confident that the Academy of Sciences, which did not cease its scientific activity even in the most difficult years of civil war, will be able, in the conditions of the proletarian state, to achieve magnificent flourishing—all the more so inasmuch as the popular masses, the workers and peasants, will increasingly be brought into contact with science and will assist the development and advancement of scientific thought through their collective mind, through their entire collective will.

We communists, heirs and continuators of the great work of the founders of scientific communism—Marx, Engels, and Lenin—have never forgotten that only on the basis of assimilating the preceding experience of scientific thought of all times and peoples will we be able to build a socialist economy, will we be able to advance toward communism. At the same time, we have held and hold that we are, in the social sphere, in the sphere of social relations, bearers of that bold revolutionary thought which has always gigantically advanced science in all fields. However, we know that scientific thought in capitalist states, founded on private property in the means and instruments of production, founded on the division of society into classes and on the exploitation of one class by another, timidly comes to a halt when it confronts the necessity, the inevitability of fundamental